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Scotts Bluff County [NE] Surveyor Duane Stott said the county has received calls from many residents who did not know where they needed to go to vote. He said the online map is a new way for residents to pinpoint poll places within their individual precincts. “We’ve had a lot of interest,”...

A thank you and request for more image reviewers from FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Mike Hall. ---- original post 11/1/12 ---- FEMA, via the had the Civil Air Patrol, take aerial imagery in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts on Oct 31 2012. It is looking for help...

The headline is copied from the Huffington Post, which is soliciting input on an Ushahidi (CrowdMap) map. I appreciate that text above the map explains: To submit a formal service request to your local government, use 311. For emergency assistance, call 911. But the text of article...

We are pleased to announce the establishment of first Open Source Geospatial Research and Education (OSGeoREL) Laboratory in the United States at the Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. The laboratory is one of the founding members of a worldwide network...

The Free and Open Source GIS Ramblings Blog has a series of posts on visualizing Boston's bike sharing program data in QGIS. One question: do people ride downhill more than uphill? I live in Somerville, we must do both. I wrote about the Hubway Visualization Challenge earlier this month (APB...

Summit County, Ohio has four separate GIS groups that include 12 staffers. Legislation before the council would consolidate them to a single group of just 10 people and save $180,000 via staff downsizing and common purchasing. If passed the change could happen as soon as Nov 1. Interesting that...

NEURISA Day was Monday October 15 in Sturbridge, MA. The agenda included LiDAR in the morning, exhibitor speed networking before lunch, followed by tech trends and mobile tech in the afternoon. The attendees numbered just about 100 (it was a sell out) and fell into roughly equal thirds: local...

And, the winner is a dual EPL/BSD license: The Project Steering Committee has accepted an RFC making uDig available under a dual BSD and EPL license. This is an excellent compromise between using BSD to share code with projects such as GeoTools, while retaining the protection afforded by the...

The Covington City Council [Georgia, USA] agreed Monday night to pay $35,240 to Omega Mapping Services of Woodbury to create the online database [of cemeteries]. The company will use survey grade equipment to map markers put in with ground penetrating radar. I wonder if anyone knows what...

Intergraph just announced [Oct 10] that it has donated free educational software licenses of both ERDAS IMAGINE and GeoMedia to all 25 recipients of the 2012 United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) scholarship awards. - Trajectory Magazine, press release via...